Smoking is not allowed after tooth extraction; smoking after tooth extraction can lead to slow wound healing, dry socket syndrome, infection and other adverse effects.
1. Slow wound healing: smoking after tooth extraction will stimulate the extraction socket, indirectly causing vasoconstriction of the patient’s blood vessels, resulting in a relative decrease in the supply of blood to the traumatized tissues, prolonging the healing period of the wound.
2. Dry socket: after tooth extraction, there will be a post-extraction wound in the patient’s mouth, which is full of blood clots. If the patient smokes at this time, it is easy to lead to the shedding of the clot, will lose the protective effect of the extraction nest, the extraction nest is easy to induce the symptoms of dry socket.
3. Infection: smoke will contain tar and nicotine components, smoking after tooth extraction is easy to adsorb on the patient’s mucous membrane, into the patient’s tooth extraction wound, increasing the chance of wound infection, resulting in the patient’s extraction socket secretion of white or yellow pus, oral swelling and pain, interstitial infection and other symptoms.
If the patient smokes after the extraction of teeth caused by the above effects, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, and follow the doctor’s instructions for appropriate treatment.